The Cuban police imposed a fine of 2,000 pesos on Human Rights activist Pedro Wenceslao Laguardia Artiaga for lowering his mask in the doorway of his house to take medication.
In a video made public by José Díaz Silva, president of the Opposition Movement for a New Republic (MONR), Pedro Wenceslao states that he was fined “for belonging to said group and sharing the bad things that exist within the Castro regime.”
The event occurred on September 17 when, according to this citizen, he was preparing to take medication in the hallway of his home and someone called him from behind, turning out to be a police officer who asked for his identification.
Pedro Wenceslao says that he tried to explain to the police officer that he was inside his house and that if he had lowered his mask it was to take medication, but the response he received from the officer was “I don't care where you are.”
Since the new restrictive measures, adopted by the provincial government of Havana to stop the spread of the coronavirus, came into force on September 1, There are many Cuban citizens who complain about injustices committed in its application and the high amount of fines they entail.
As soon as the announced extreme measures came into effect, the rapper Eliéxer Márquez, known as 'El Funky', was fined 2000 pesos for lowering his mask to spit on the street.
On September 15, a citizen was arrested for lowering the mask to eat bread in the street, after claiming that he had not eaten breakfast and was diabetic.
Yesterday there was also the case of a Cuban mother fined for approaching the perimeter that the police have marked in her neighborhood, which has been quarantined since September 9, to collect food and medicine for her daughter who is allergic.
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